The World Inspired Landscapes is a series I started just before the pandemic, the idea is to do one painting of each country in the world. Some countries are more problematic than others due to the complex nature of their politics and geography, not to mention human rights issues. The series is meant to depict the landscape in a meaningful way based on imagery and concepts. For Iran, there are a lot of mountains in the region, and going back as far as the Persian Empire the area was a hub of art and culture. The painting depicts a range of brightly coloured mountains arranged in a repetitive pattern. I actually did these awhile ago and posted
version 3. As I work on updating the catalogue I found version 1 and version 2 which seemed worth posting. I am starting up the series again moving on the letter J.
World Inspired Landscapes: Iran version 1, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper 2023
In the second version I kept with the same theme but reduced the repetitiveness of the shapes. I rather prefer version 1 though. This one needed to be on the horizontal format which I did in version 3, and added patterns. After all that, I still prefer version 1! I just realized I already did a blog on these two, but the scans look better with the new scanner so I will just leave this blog up.
World Inspired Landscapes: Iran version 2
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